Improvement in carbureters



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Car-bureter.'

No. 205,201. Patented June 25,1878.

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Specification. forming part` of `Letters Patent No. 205.201, dated J uneQ, `1878 application filed A Marh 1,1878. f

To all whom it vmay concern.'

Be it known that I, WILLIAMAM onEnoUsE, of the city of Buffalo, inthe county of Erie and State oi' New York,`have invented .a new and usefullApparatus forfCarbureting Gas for "Illuminating Purposes, ofwhichthe followingar specification and accompanying drawings are a full, clear, and exact description. The object of my'invention is-to produce aV simple,cheap, and convenient carbureting apparatus, adapted to be used in kconnection with the carbureted-hydrogen gas supplied to dwell- .inghouses or other buildings from the ordinarygas-works of towns and cities.

`Heretofore in apparatusemployed forear: bureting gas, chambers or vapartments `have been made tocontain lime and other substances for cleansing thegas of impurities derivedfrom the earburetingiliquids employed; but such apartments, sofar as I am aware, have `been constructed in such manner that they cannot be removed forthe purposeof renewingtheir charge without-destroying `or greatly injuring the integrity ofthe entire apparatus.

By my construction Iam enabled to discon` neet, remove, and replace the apartments comf posin g my carbureter without injury 5 and they rare soarranged as `to occupy but little room;

laterally, each one, commencing with the topi vessehbeing directlysupported upon `an ad` `joining vessel beneath, which is of a greater lateral capacity or diameter, and soAv on, until.

the bottom vessel is reached.-

have thewickiug spread uponthe-entire surface of the disk b, so that the gas which may pass from the apartment al into a2 will be compelled to pass through the wicking, which becomes saturated with the carbonaceous liquid.

E represents a cock, provided with a funnel,

f, whichcommunicates with a metal pipe, f1, which communicates with the vessel A and its apartmentsal e2.

When the vessel A is to be charged the carbonaceous liquid is poured into the funnel f, and thence passes into the vessel A at a point Vthrough its bottom at f2. r

Within the metal pipe f1 ja glass tube, g, is inserted, as shown,`a portion of the front jof the pipe being cut away, Yso asto indicate in the tube the height of the carbonaceous liquid in the vessel A, and signify when the vesselA requires replenishing. Y j Y El indicates a gas-cock, to which the servicepipeis to be screwed, which leads out of the meter of the dwelling, so thatthe gas from the meter will be compelled to lowthrough the ap paratusbefore reaching any of thegburners.`

E2 represents a gas-cock leading out of the carbureter, to which cock the service-.pipe is to be screwed, which conducts the carbureted gas to the burners throughout the buildin g in-which the carbureterA is used.

B, C, and D are gastght vessels 'somewhat similar to A, but having both (their Atop and bottom portions convex, as shown', in order to sustain superincumbent.weightfas well as afford interior gas-spaces a3 a* above and below their charges. Each of the vessels B G D is provided with a perforated disk, as at,b, the perforations, as at c, being made conical, with a pointed implement forced through the metal `of the disk, so as to form a burr around each perforation. These disks are placed in each of these vessels with the burrs, as at lv, pointing upward, for reasons which will presently be stated.

The vessel or apartment D is;v constructed with its bottom convex portion terminating centrally in ashor-t screw-threaded tube, as at e, This tube is made to screw into a short tubular socket, e', correspondin gly-situated and properly secured in the upper convex portion of. theadjoining vessel G, as shown in` Fig. l 5

and in this mannereachof the vessel s A AB G D is secured to another, `each being made of successively diminished horizontal diameter from the bottom one, A, to the top one, D.

In charging the vesselAthe cock E1 should be rst closed, andthen the cock E opened. The cook E2 should remain open, and with one of the burners lighted, thereby consuming ,the gas expelled by reason of the liquid poured into the vessel A. I prefer to mix a small quantity of sulphuric acid and lime with the carbonaceous liquid before it is poured into the vessel A, as I have found by so doing the illuminating power of the carbureted gas is improved.

I charge the vessel B upon its disk b (but not above the line first with granulated charcoal, either of wood orbone, (wood charcoal preferred,) the granulations being, say, the size of a kernel of wheat, and of sufficient quantity to only cover the upper surface of the disk. This done, I then iill the vessel B up to the line with charcoal very iinely pulverized.

I charge the vessel C upon its disk b with like granulated charcoal, and then till up the vessel, but not above the line rv', with equal quantities of charcoal reduced to a very fine powder and air-slaked lime, thoroughly mixed.

f The vessel D I charge with a like layer of granulated charcoal, and thereupon lill up,

but not above the line x', with pure air-slaked lime.

The contents of these vessels when so iilled' are prevented from falling through the disks by the burrs r, which surround the perforations c,- but if any portion of the powdered contents should pass into said perforations,

their clogging up will be prevented by the downward flaring form of the perforations.

In the operation of my carbureter the gas -from the meter is forced into the vessel A upon the carbureting-liquid therein, and thence into the gas-space a2 of said vessel and onward through the socket e and tube c into v the gas-space c3 of the vessel B. From the lower gas-space of vessel B the gas continues on, as signiied by the arrows, through the charges of the vessels B, C, and D, and is finally delivered into the gas-space a4 of the latter vessel, cleansed from impurities, and enriched by the vapor supplied to the gas by the liquid carbonaceous matter in the ves- By constructing my carbureter as shown, I practically have a compact column of apartments, the lower one of which constitutes a -proper base for the whole; and as they each at their points of junction afford a central support for each other on a vertical line from the top of the pile to the bottom, the lessening of the size of each suoceedingvessel above the bottom one allows of their proper supthe other.

It will be seen, further, that by my construction of the carbureter either one of the vessels D, O, and B may be readily unscrewed,

removed, recharged, and replaced without injury to the apparatus in whole or in part, whenever the impurities of the liquid carbonaceous matter employed have accumulated in the charges of said vessels to such an extent as to render such operation necessary.

In practice, my carbureter is provided with legs z, in order that the tube f1 may deliver up through the bottom of the vessel A, and this tube will be screwed into said bottom, in order that it may be readily removed when it is necessary to draw oft' sedimentary accumulation in said vessel.

By screwing an ordinary gas-burner to the part E2 of my carburetor, and attaching one end of a flexible gas-tube in common use for what is known as drop lights to the part El of the vessel A, my said apparatus can be utilized for lighting apartments in a dwelling, it not being liable to be overturned, owing to its general conical form.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A carbureting-chamber provided with a single and central supporting-screw socket, c', and a tubular screw, e, as a means whereby one chamber of a carbureter can be united to another, the gas conducted from one chamber to another, and an abutment provided betweenV united chambers, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a perforated disk, b, with a carbureting-chamber made with a con- Vex top, or both a convex top and bottom, which permit a diffusion or spreading of the gas, and provided with a central screw tube and socket, by which the chambers of a carbureter may, by turning them around horizontally, be readily united or separated, the central tube and socket serving as the channel by which the chamber is filled or cleaned out, and through which the gas flows from one chamber into another of a carbureter, substantially as described.

3. A column of carbureting-chambers, which have, respectively, an arched bracing top and intermediate tubular abutments, which serve as central connections and channels for the flow of gas from one chamber into another, substantially as described.

4. vIn a carbureting apparatus, a series of chambers, B C D, having convex tops and bottoms, in combination with a chamber, A, having a convex top, which chambers B C D A, from the bottom vessel upward, throughout the series, have their horizontal diameters diminished consecutively, substantially as and for the purpose described.

WM. MOREHOUSE. 

